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Super easy way to put or watermark on a photo in bulk?
Using pywatermark is a decent technical option if you want to put watermark on a photo through code, but you should know it's effectively unmaintained. It's a free, open-source Python library that leverages the Pillow imaging library to add text watermarks to images, and it's specifically designed to make batch processing easy if you want to put watermark on a photo across many files at once.
The library is fairly straightforward to use. After installing it with pip install PyWatermark, you can call a simple function to put watermark on a photo:
python
from PyWatermark import waterMarkImages
outFile = water MarkImages("image.jpg", "/output/folder", "Your Watermark Text")
You can customize the position, font size, and opacity of the text, and you can either use the built-in fonts or provide your own . ttf file.
Important Caveats to Consider
- Inactive Maintenance: This is the biggest red flag. The package shows a Health Score of 36/100 on security analysis platforms, and its maintenance status is flagged as Inactive. The last release was over 5 years ago, and there are open issues with no recent commits or pull request activity.
- Limited Adoption: The project has very low popularity, with only 0 stars on GitHub, indicating a small community and minimal support resources.
- Vulnerability Status: While no direct vulnerabilities have been found in the package itself, the lack of maintenance means any future security issues or compatibility problems with newer Python versions are unlikely to be addressed.
If you need a more actively maintained tool and don't mind a similar technical approach, the pythonwatermark package is a more recent alternative (last updated in 2023) that supports images, PDFs, and offers features like transparency control and image watermarks.